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Even though files can be oversized, backup can’t be overemphasized. Here’s how Chase does it.

Chase Jarvis TECH: Complete Workflow and Backup for Photo + Video

Occasionally, I get my hands on some anchor points that need a better foundation. Such was the case for a recent client project. The guilty font was none other than Quicksand. It’s a trendy free font right now. The main problem with the font is the lack of optical balancing in the letter forms. I’ve included an enlarged view of the previous form (pink) and the optically adjusted form (blue). Whenever you have an arm or bowl of a letter meet a vertical stem, it’s tasteful to have some tapering in the connecting area so the font doesn’t feel too clunky. Especially at small sizes, the font will tend to look muddy or heavy.

You can see the full update here.

A great collaboration between Shawn Murdock and myself. This time he was the design lead and I did the flash creation. This site uses some nice and fancy flash actionscripting to keep the motion smooth, custom right click navigation and SEO strength too.  You should check it out to see the sweet transitions.

Details:
Design: Shawn Murdock
Flash Development: Seth Taylor
Time to complete: 2.5 weeks
Software: Flash CS3, Caurina Tweener Actionscript Class, Smultron

Yay, my idea came to fruition, they even kept the name suggestion

google goggles

Original post in Aug 2006: http://sethtaylor.com/b2/2006/08/14/google-goggles/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hhgfz0zPmH4

As you can see, there are a few differences, mainly, my version would use glasses which would be a projector screen and the front of the glasses would be a camera to help identify landmarks or whatever you were seeing.

I wish I could have explained it with those great accents though. Good job team.

brushes app - painted by finger

I’ve enjoyed the brushes app. Painted this on my iPod Touch during Thanksgiving break.

Here’s a christmas card that was fun to design for the Kennedy Center on BYU. They provide the majority of international study opportunities for the students. Joy to the world from an extraterrestrial point of view but with terrestrial references.

Harmonica NES

Since a few people asked, here’s some of the procedure/tools to make the NES Harmonica.

Because a good friend asked me how to do this, I figured I’d make a tutorial on how to draw a gradient along a path in Adobe Illustrator. Please let me know if you have any questions.

Awaking at 4:30 a.m. to drive to Scofield Reservior was well worth it. I enjoyed quiet sunrise and the crunchy sagebrush smells. These shots are for an upcoming web site launch for some cabins up in the area.

My responsibilities were logo creation, product design, photography, website design, interaction, and managing the shopping cart coding and some training.